Results 101-120 of 143 for long speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that all necessary mitigations have been put in place in schools to address the spread of Covid-19 and protect the immediate and long-term health of staff, students and also public health itself; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1575/22]

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...confirm if she had bothered to stay for a debate she was specifically included in, I have been questioning her on air quality and safety in our schools using the parliamentary question system for a long time now because I am deeply concerned at her Department's attitude to safety in our schools. I am relieved that, at long last, it seems HEPA filtration is being addressed but I cannot...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...the community and to strengthen general practice. The market seems unable to look after this. I hope the Tánaiste will agree that this is an urgent public health matter. With waiting lists so long and emergency departments so busy, GPs are the Holy Grail at the moment in primary healthcare. What is the Government doing to address this?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the planning that is in place within the health service to deal with long-Covid-19 in the population in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59041/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: ..., parents in north Kildare and I are still very worried about primary schools. The Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, knows that I have been asking about air quality in classrooms for a long time now. Her most recent reply came back yesterday. I had asked when high-efficiency particulate absorbing, HEPA, filters would be installed in each classroom, given the growing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets and Climate Action Plan: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (16 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...move on climate is now. My concern is about the just transition. I do not see it in the heart and soul of the plan. I do not see a genuine heartfelt concern about poor citizens in Ireland. How long is a carer meant to save his or her carer's allowance before he or she can afford an electric vehicle, EV, when the cheapest, after the grant, is €27,000? I reiterate what Senator...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...and quads it is good to see the Government is taking Sinn Féin's lead and making provision for something that is a scourge on many communities. On this side of the House we have been told for a long time it could not be done but here we are and it is welcome. It has been a Damascene conversion but welcome all the same. What has been proposed is very much like the legislation Sinn...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (9 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...agree it is already bucketing down but when it comes to housing, childcare, carers, ventilating schools, supporting people through a just transition and the climate crisis, the monsoon arrived a long time ago. There is a huge amount of work to be done so that we do not create a divide between the climate haves and have-nots. The Minister for Finance took umbrage at the mention of words...

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...or grandparents, the divide in our education system became more apparent, the experience for children and families in such situations even bleaker. I expect, too, that quite a number of children would have longed for school as a refuge and the dignity and safety in the well-off leafy suburbs. I agree with my comrade, Teachta Ó Laoghaire, that the Covid learning and support...

Covid-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing our Recovery and Reconnecting: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...and hospital and ICU admissions. Reframing the challenge of Covid-19 is difficult in the context of our current figures. Our children are of particular concern in the context of Covid itself, long Covid and the wider impacts on their physical, mental and emotional health. It is hard to believe that while the Government is committed to retrofitting our schools under the EU energy...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne, was wondering would Sinn Féin give an honest appraisal of the budget. I am certainly willing to do that. This budget, like somebody who has been in a job too long, has managed to look very busy while not getting very much done at all. Post budget, millions are still waking up to crippling rents, which are the highest in the EU. The cost of living is...

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...the tourism and aviation sectors, both hard hit by the public health measures necessary to stop the spread of the virus. Both sectors were very badly hit by those restrictions and it will take a long time for them to recover and to regain ground lost. In my constituency in north Kildare, I saw at first hand the financial and psychological crisis people found themselves in as diaries,...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...in the community, namely the people we serve. We are trying to achieve this balance, but thankfully globally there is growing awareness of the existential crisis humans face on this planet. We are long past the point where it is reasonable to say that we should massively increase our energy from renewables and then we would have plenty of capacity for running data centres. To...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...age pension, which does not include accommodation costs. We need radical change and actual housing for all, not this sham. A major investment in social and affordable housing is needed and it is too long overdue because people in north Kildare and everywhere are not affected by this crisis as much as they are afflicted by it. That affliction of good, ordinary people must stop. The...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: Robust freedom of information legislation acknowledges power. That power does not belong to a Minister, a political party or the Government; it belongs to the people. I commend my comrade, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, on tabling this pertinent Private Members' motion. Fine Gael's proposed ham-fisted, naked crony appointment of an envoy to the UN saw a Minister delete information on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is examining the possibility of pregnant teachers working from home for as long as possible given that the children they are teaching will be largely unvaccinated and the women themselves at higher risk of complication, ICU admission and stillbirth if they contract the virus though vaccinated themselves; and if she will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Reduction of Carbon Emissions of 51% by 2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...came into my office. Given the short deadline we have to achieve reductions, it would be risky to rely on the market to come up with a solution. The time for tinkering around the edges has long passed. I also worry about negative social outputs if we were to rely on market mechanisms, because they will benefit large farmers to the detriment of smaller farmers. The Government sometimes...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (27 May 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...to normal and reclaim some of our social lives but it is important that we stick to the public health advice and proceed with caution. It is important for our public health and for the economy in the long term. Most important, doing so respects the work our magnificent healthcare workers have put into this. They have been to hell and back to mind us. I thank the Minister for his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2021)

Réada Cronin: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long-term leases active in north County Kildare in each year from 2009 to 2020 inclusive and to date in 2021; the annual cost of each lease type for each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26460/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 May 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...when it comes to housing our people, a 25-year lease is about as prudent as taking truckloads of public cash and setting fire to them on a public green. With so many houses being snapped up by long-term leasing, it looks like public money will be piled high and set ablaze, like in Mullen Park in Maynooth in my constituency in north Kildare. What will be at the end of these bonfires?...